PART I Power in supply chains and markets 1
1 Power, rents and critical assets 3
2 The key attributes of buyer and supplier power 24
3 Towards an analytical typology of supply chain power regimes 53
PART II Power regimes in supply and value chains 77
4 Site-specific convenience, branding and regulation: the sources of asset criticality in the forecourt retailing supply chain 79
5 Regulation, site specificity and scale: the sources of asset criticality in the industrial sugar supply chain 102
6 Site specificity and price stickiness under regulation: the sources of asset criticality in the industrial electricity supply chain 124
7 Asset specificity, switching costs and limited competition: the sources of asset criticality in the aerospace fuel equipment supply chain 145
8 Information asymmetry and ex post lock-in to branded and regulated asset specificity: the sources of asset criticality in the motor insurance supply chain 163
9 Information asymmetry, innovation, scale and regulation: the sources of asset criticality in the new car supply chain 185
10 Information asymmetry, moral hazard and branded reputation: the sources of asset criticality in IT systems integration supply and value chains 207
PART III A research agenda for analysing business power 231
11 Linking descriptive and analytical approaches to business thinking 233
